On Whitman /

In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that have accumulated around the work and person of Walt Whitman, and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it, to explore why Whitman's epic "continues...

詳細記述

書誌詳細
第一著者: Williams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth), 1936-2015
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©2010.
シリーズ:Writers on writers.
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7sbp5
目次:
  • The music
  • The past
  • Beginnings
  • Vision
  • Depths
  • The man before the poems
  • Self-made
  • The notebooks
  • Emerson and the greatest poet
  • The greatest poet submits a poem for publication
  • "I"
  • A dare
  • "You"
  • America
  • The modern, one : Baudelaire
  • Hugo and Longfellow-- The modern, two : Eliot and Pound
  • Others
  • The body
  • Sex
  • Woman
  • Lorca, Ginsberg, and "The faggots"
  • Nature
  • Prophets
  • Imagination
  • Mortality
  • Mortality again
  • The sad captain
  • Lines
  • The voice
  • Life after
  • What he teaches us.